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A Rhetorical Analysis Of An American University's Diversity Policy, Adam C. Faust
A Rhetorical Analysis Of An American University's Diversity Policy, Adam C. Faust
English Theses
This thesis focuses on the guidelines that university governing bodies have adopted in order to regulate the actions of its student population and the factors that influenced their decisions. The evaluation of these guidelines is not a judicial analysis, but an analysis of the rhetorical aspects associated with the guidelines. The thesis contends that the current rhetoric of diversity on American college campuses, while drafted with the best of intentions, fails due to the limitations that it places on its students, the morality argument in which it draws strength, and the increase in differences, not acceptance, that it creates. The …
Divine Destiny Or Free Choice: Nietzsche's Strong Wills In The Harry Potter Series, Julia Rose Pond
Divine Destiny Or Free Choice: Nietzsche's Strong Wills In The Harry Potter Series, Julia Rose Pond
English Theses
This paper considers the influences of fate and free will in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Current scholarship on the topic generally agrees that Rowling champions free will by allowing her characters learning opportunities through their choices. By using Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy on fate and free will and by more closely examining the Harry Potter texts, this paper demonstrates fate’s stronger presence in Rowling’s fictional world. Certain strong-willed characters rise above their peers’ fated states by embracing their personal fates and exercising their wills to create themselves within fated destinies. The paper also explores the possibility of an authority directing …